Re: XWin copy/paste succeeds on Windows 7, crashes on Windows 11 Enterprise.

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 03/11/2023 20:17, Stone, Timothy M via Cygwin wrote:
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> I'm having a really hard time debugging this issue.
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> If I use the exact same version of cygwin and XWin, exact same code, exact same Motif GUI app...
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> I find that when I try to use copy/paste functionality in TextFieldWidgets:
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>    *Cut/Copy/Paste works perfectly on Windows 7 Professional
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>    *Cut/Copy/Paste does not work at all and typically crashes on Windows 11 Enterprise
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I'm assuming this means "the X server crashes", but it's not exactly clear.

If that is the case, there are some instructions on generating 
backtraces to help with debugging at [1].

[1] https://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html

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> I am using an older version of cygwin for this specific test (cygwin 1.7.15 and XWin 1.13.2-1), but I am having the same issue with the latest version as well.
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> Any help greatly appreciated!  Seems this must be a system issue since everything about the cygwin and XWin is exactly the same on both systems?

It's not really safe to make assumptions like this. This could be a 
latent bug in XWin which just happens to get exposed on W11 (or that 
particular system, even)...